this one dates to june 6, 1998. the files were completed on june 4, 1998 but i no doubt did not sequence the record until later. this date is actually very consciously chosen to position it after a 20-minute sample collage i completed on june 5, 1998. that will allow me to renumber this piece as my first symphony without strange ambiguity.
the truth is that it is neither clear when i finished the sample collage nor when i completed sequencing this recording.
what this is is the first six tracks from the first record, as the first record will appear shortly. there was intent from the start to combine the tracks that were about transgressive sexual thoughts: rape, necrophilia and self-mutilation. the phantom cover was actually topical. it was all entirely fictional, of course. and, all the vocal content has been stripped out - for now, at least. i may work it back in for this release and flip side it...
the point is that this was conceived of as a song suite when i was making it back in 1998. i've long considered it a sort of proto-symphony, but the recording was just too terrible to allow into my symphonic series. that's been fixed...
...and it is therefore the new symphony one.
tracks one and three were remastered from the cd tracks. tracks two, four and six were rebuilt from source. tracks five and six feature substantial updates to the core of the tracks.
https://jasonparent.bandcamp.com/album/on-sexual-confusion-in-adolescence-2
